FEATURE: STORAGE
African genomics is undergoing a profound shift as research organisations gain access to advanced, sovereign AI infrastructure built directly on the continent.
Achieving this requires not only scientific expertise but an extraordinary level of data infrastructure capable of handling petabytes of genomic information with the speed, reliability and security demanded by AI-driven workflows.
Yemaachi BioTech, one of Africa’ s most forwardlooking precision medicine companies, sits at the centre of this transformation. Its mission is ambitious: decode African genomic diversity at scale and apply Machine Learning to uncover biomarkers, disease susceptibilities and therapeutic insights that have long been overlooked in global research.
To support this mission, Yemaachi now operates on a BlueSPACE-delivered BlueNODE platform, a sovereign AI-ready compute and storage environment specifically designed for African research institutions. At the heart of this 3.2PB deployment is the Nexsan Unity NV10000, which contributes 2.6PB of highperformance unified storage.
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